Improvement in finger-bars for harvesters



NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

VICTOR- N. COLLINS, OF DIXON, CALIFORNIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN FINGER-BARS FOR HARVESTERS.

Specification forming partei Letters Iatent No. 146,804, dated January 27', 1874; application filed October 18, 1873.

.fb all zoll/0m it may concern:

'Be it known that I, Yrcrou X. COLLINS, of Dixon, in the county of Solano and State of California, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Harvester-s, ot' which the fol` lowing is a specification:

The invention will first be fully described, and then pointed out in the claims.

Figure 1 is a rear side elevation of a cutterA bar arranged according to 1n y invention. Fig. 2 is a plan view. Fig. 3 is a cross-section taken on the line .r 1f of Fig. L. Fig. 4 is a cross-section, showing a dilierent way of attaching the lingers, which the bar will allow by its peculiar construction, if preferred; and Fig. 51s a front elevation of a section of the oar and one of the finge Similar letters of reftrmcc indicate corresponding parts.

A represents the bar, which I prefer to cast in malleable metal; but it may be rolled, if preferred. It is foi-ined with a top, B, sloping backward; also, with the lian ge O on the front upper edge, and also with the flanges I) and l on the rear side. The lingers F are formed with a wide base to bear against the side of the bar, and with a notch to lit the shoulder (l, by which they are firmly secured with one bolt, J, so that they cannot turn out of place. The top plate H for the bar A is made of a wide thin strip of sheet or wrought iron folded back on the under side from the lower edge I to the side of the bar A, forming thetop guide K for the carrier; and said plate is bolted onto the finger-bar by the bolts L, which secure the keepers M, said bolts being screwed into the :lian ge O.

Fingers F, Fig. 4, may be bolted on the top of the bar A, over the plate H, in thel same manner that the guards are, if preferred, by having the flange G extended a little more.

N represents au upward inclination of the top plate H at one end to cover the end of the endless carrier as it rises up over the pulley at that end on which the carrier works, of which'the axis is at O, and I) is a spring at tached to said plate at the other end to guide` 

